9 posts from December 2013

Ever wonder what publishing professionals read in their spare time? Wonder no more! Here is the definitive list of Beacon Press's reading recommendations for 2013. A professional cyclist kicked out of the sport, a cigar smoking dragon, a Greek chorus of gay men lost to AIDS, a boyhood marred by abuse, a bullying presidency, Albert Einstein, the poetry of quietude, and so much more. Who could argue with a list like that?
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Noliwe M. Rooks, author of White Money/Black Power, explores the complex questions of race and poverty raised by homeless child Dasani, subject of the recent New York Times "Invisible Child" series.
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For Human Rights Day, Melinda Chateauvert, author of "Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk," makes the case for treating the rights of sex workers as a human rights issue.
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